The Liverpool Scottish Museum Trust

Associated with the Army Museum Ogilby Trust and the Association of Independent Museums

The pipers playing the Regimental March, The Glendaruel Highlanders, can be asked to pause by pressing the 'Escape' button on your keyboard

Because of the relocation of both the archive office and the stored artefacts, we have not been able to respond to queries in general since March 2011. The Honorary Curator and the Honorary Secretary are now beginning to work their way through the backlog of nearly eighty queries that has accumulated. Acknowledgements should have been received by all those who made queries before August 2011 and we have initiated responses in queries received almost to the end of April (as at 9 November 2011). Acknowledgements will be sent to those who have made queries since August. We are grateful for the patience and understanding of our friends; we have to point out that that 'Honorary' means 'unpaid and voluntary' as are all those associated with the museum trust. A query can easily take four of five hours to research. Our service generally remains free of charge (at present) but donations are now especially welcome if enquirers feel that they receive something of value; the present delay is much regretted. This is in the light of additional recurrent expenses at our new location and the capital cost of occupying the archive office. Many military museums make a £25 charge or charge between £10 and £20 an hour to deal with queries.

If a query is particularly urgent (for instance in the case of an impending trip abroad to a battlefield or cemetery or for a compassionate reason), our telephone numbers are available under 'Contacts'

The 'Ashton Trophy' section now contains the citation for the award of the Ashton Trophy to Mr Mick Molyneux BEM on 21 October 2011

Following the move from Botanic Road in 2008 to New Zealand House in Liverpool City centre (Liverpool area office of the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment) the Liverpool Scottish archive relocated again in May 2011 to offices in Eberle Street, Liverpool L2. Visits there are strictly by appointment only, generally on Wednesdays. This should be arranged through the Honorary Secretary or the Honorary Curator whose telephone contact details remain the same. Please continue to use the postal address given on the contact page. We are still in the process of moving the stored artefacts to a new location as well as organising their reassignment to other collections. Our digitisation programme has continued and we now have over 42000 readable images from our archive collection

It is hoped to issue a newsletter in the winter of 2011. We apologise to those who have made enquiries in recent months to which we have not been able to respond. The work of preparation for the move has occupied virtually all our resources. It is hoped that outstanding queries will be handled over the next two months.

The museum's extensive photographic and documentary collection will be available for consultation. However, an appointment will be necessary and we will be normally (but not always) available at Eberle Street on Wednesdays from 10:30 am until 2:30 pm. Please phone the Honorary Curator or the Honorary Secretary for an appointment. Access is not always possible because of the operating requirements of our hosts. Work continues on the detailed cataloguing of the archive and photography of the contents. The photographic project is substantial and already consists of over 28,000 images with only about 35% of the accessioned documentary collection covered. It is hoped that it may eventually be extended to the contents of records built up by ourselves over fifty years.

The Museum Trust's artifacts are in secure storage and we are in the process of transferring the core of the collection to the Museum of Liverpool where it will be held as the Liverpool Scottish collection. This is a long and complex process. In common with all museums, the Museum of Liverpool will not be able to exhibit all these items but elements will be seen in the displays in the new Museum of Liverpool Building on the Pier Head (opening July 2011). This is the largest museum to open in the country for nearly 100 years. Other elements of the collection may be transferred to other museums with Lancashire or Cameron Highlanders affinities; negotiations are in progress. A small display has been mounted at a Territorial Army location in Liverpool and it may be possible for accompanied access to be arranged: this depends on the availability of volunteers. More background to the decision not to redisplay the collection will be included in the next newsletter

It is hoped that images and descriptions of many of the artifacts in the collection that were previously on display will be available within the coming year 2011/2012. We are aware that the website need extensive amendment to represent our new status but again this will be a gradual process for a limited group of volunteers.

The Regimental Museum of the Liverpool Scottish

Click for Liverpool Scottish private of 1900

The Regimental Museum is the responsibility of the Regimental Museum Trust, established in 1979 to protect the collection of artifacts which have been acquired since the foundation of the 8th (Scottish) Volunteer Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment) in 1900. This and its successor units have been known generally as "The Liverpool Scottish".

If your PC is equipped with sound-playback capabilities, you will have been greeted by the regimental march, the Glendaruel Highlanders. It will only play for about one minute, so don't worry. It can be silenced by pressing the 'escape' button on your computer keyboard. This tune, and others like it, can be downloaded from our Pipe Duty Tunes page.

The Museum moved from Forbes House in Childwall in 1999 where it had reached provisional registration status with the Museums and Galleries Commission. In its new location at Botanic Road (officially re-opened in November 2002) it was awarded 'Fully Registered' status by Resource (Council for Museums, Libraries, Archives and Libraries), the successor to the MGC. It is affiliated to the Army Museums Ogilby Trust and receives professional curatorial advice from the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside. It receives no public funds on a regular basis (though there have been some specific purposes grants) and is maintained generally entirely by voluntary donations from well wishers, private regimental sources and from those who have made use of its research services. The Museum occupied premises at Botanic Road, Liverpool until 2008 when the collection was placed in storage and and the archive housed separately in Liverpool city centre. Substantial funds are still required for the conservation and storage of its collection as well as cataloguing and digitising the archive to ensure future accessibility.

Click for Lt. K. A. Gemmell KIA Hooge 1915

Donations would be welcomed by the Secretary and cheques should be made payable to the Liverpool Scottish Regimental Museum Trust. His address can be found on the 'Visiting and Contact' page

The Chairman of the Museum Trust is Professor Donald Ritchie CBE FRSE DL (Emeritus Professor of Genetics, University of Liverpool). The Honorary Secretary is Major IL Riley TD MA FSA Scot (01925 766157), the Honorary Curator is Mr. Dennis Reeves. (Tel: 0151 645 5717) and the Honorary Treasurer is Captain Mike Gavin TD (contact via the Secretary)

The Museum issues occasional newsletters on items of Liverpool Scottish interest

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